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> When the NSA identified Reality Winner communicating with The Intercept, they didn't so much care about what was in those messages; once the link was established, they had better ways of extracting the rest of the information they wanted than trying to defeat a cryptosystem.

Which is surely a strong argument for having keys that are standalone and portable across different communication media, rather than having them be coupled to accounts on particular services (or, worse, to personal information like an SSN or phone number).




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